Thursday | 30 The morning starts with a hosted, sit-down breakfast in the Casa del Rey Moro Garden overlooking the Spreckels Organ Pavilion, where a group of presenters will speak about the future of the ...

On Wednesday, July 15, the outdoor showers at San Diego’s four state-park beaches were scheduled to be shut off, in compliance with the governor’s mandated 25 percent reduction in water usage. The cold-water shower towers ...

First developed in the 1880s and incorporated on July 18, 1956, Imperial Beach became the tenth city in San Diego County. The I.B. Pier was originally built around 1909; one purpose was to attract crowds, ...

Imperial Beach city officials are trying to deal with residents’ anger and frustration after they received letters that warned them about unauthorized driveway parking of recreational vehicles. Unlike the City of San Diego, which doesn’t ...

The Bassics bring the San Diego music scene to their neighborhood in Imperial Beach

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At the end of Coronado Ave on the south west corner of Seacoast stands a three story blue trimmed white condo/apartment with a new tenant that seemingly has a beef with the existence of my feathered friends that live here at the beach.
Recently there has been a new bird sound filling the sea air,. It's not any more of a real bird then Big Bird from Sesame Street, but nearly as annoying as he. Among the multiple statues of fake hawks and owls that now don the decor of this building. is a sound speaker screeching out recorded hawk cries in close intervals and frequency. I presume it's to detour the pigeons, seagulls and/or crows from doing bird things in or around their area. Problem is that it's not just the birds that are being effected.
Tell me new neighbor, if you feel so strongly about keeping birds away from your home, don't you think moving across the street from an estuary might have been a bad idea?

Oh, monster neighbors are terrible. The ones who disturb others peace just for self gratification are horrible. I feel bad for you and the birds who I am sure were there before the new tenant.
I live in front of jobless, drug addicts on the north end of Silver Strand Blvd. Nothing worse than having lots junkies walking by your place to go get high and hang out on a regular basis. My situation is so concerning, I actually installed surveillance cameras to protect what I work so hard for. I understand how you feel being disturbed by inconsiderate imbeciles.

I’m a regular Imperial Beach contributor to The Readers Neighborhood Stories and the News Ticker feature but have been silent this past April but not for lack of trying.
On Wednesday, April 10 there was a 2 hour power outage affecting an elementary school and hundreds of residents south of Grove Ave. in the Oneonta neighborhood. SDG&E acknowledged it on their official Twitter feed but offered no explanation. I asked SDG&E if it was due to an accident, sabotage or poor maintenance. They replied they needed my “address” to provide an answer. I replied saying they acknowledged the outage on a public forum so they could certainly offer an explanation on a public forum. I’m still waiting.
On Sunday, April 14 outside a condo near Seacoast Blvd. several people witnessed three objects flying in the sky around 8:00 pm. They heard a boom sound from the west then lights appeared in the sky. A witness talking on the phone at the time told the person on the other end “I see something strange in the sky and will call you back. I want to try and photograph it.” That person told me they would put me in touch with the witness. I’m still waiting.
On Thursday, April 25 at 10:29 pm 12 gunshots were heard between 10th & 11th Street on Imperial Beach Blvd. I stood outside waiting to hear sirens or see the ASTRA helicopter buzz into the area. Nothing happened. The following morning I talked to three residents in a 2 block area and they had all heard the gunshots. I contacted the San Diego Sheriff that patrols the streets of Imperial Beach and have yet to get an explanation.
If you know of any of these incidents or anything Imperial Beach related feel free to contact me. I'm on Twitter @tuckerpete

Not so bored in IB
Just yesterday Thursday June 20th I complained I was bored as there was nothing happening in IB. Today the San Diego Sheriff SWAT Team set up a command center outside my gate. They were getting ready to charge a second floor condo when the felon's mother called him and convinced him to surrender. The wanted felon had barricaded himself inside a strangers condo and was throwing furniture out the window at deputies. Neighbors describe the inside of the condo as "trashed."
I submitted the story to the Readers Neighborhood Stories.

Surf Dog Competition
Big crowds in Imperial Beach during this past Saturdays Loews Coronado Bay Resort Surf Dog Competition held along side the I.B. pier. Not happy the sponsors (Petco) kept local businesses from participating and allowed operation of a 100 seat beer garden at this traditional family event. Only positive note was that the beer garden had no more then 3 people at any one time. Might have been the $15 for the 20oz of locally made pizzwater.

Parks and Recreation? No money. Fireworks? No money.
STOP signs? Plenty of money.
Days after City of Imperial Beach councilman Patrick Bilbray told Sports Park supporters that there was no money in the budget to run the Parks and Recreation Dept. City officials released a statement letting residents know there will be no Big Bay Boom Fourth of July fireworks show in Imperial Beach this year: “The city isn't sponsoring the fireworks because of the cost and the funds could be spent on other projects."
Meanwhile a city employee was busy replacing all the stop signs in town with brand new ones that are six inches larger then the old ones.

Just wanna HOLLER and say even though I live in NP now, Imperial Beach is the place i will Forever call HOME. Its where I found myself living when I left the wicked cold and snow in STL. Imperial Beach put a warm spot where a cold chill once lived in me 4 months out of the year. That was January 1979. First day of the rest of my life

If you are a shell collector like I am Imperial Beach is a great place to add to your collection. Over the years its gotten a bit sparse but when you luck upon a whole sand dollar or nice piece of angel glass it makes all the difference. Not to mention theres great fishing off the pier unless you prefer the catch of the day at the scrumptious restaurant located at the very end of the pier. Either way you cant go wrong unless you dont go at all Holler IB!!

The bike that was too ugly to be stolen
So the bike I said was too ugly to be stolen was stolen this morning Saturday September 7, at around 8:30 am from the South Bay Drive-In Swap Meet just outside Imperial Beach/Nestor.
My Schwinn Beach Cruiser, white with blue trim. The left peddle is missing the rubber so it's only a post. The seat cover is missing so it's only the plastic base with a hunk of foam covered by a plastic shopping bag. The rear reflector is attached using a zip tie. It's got rust but a very nice black front basket that can detach and act as a shopping basket. It was chained and locked by the front entrance in the same place I've been parking my bike and mopeds for the last 20 years.
Security guard Bob said a homeless guy is suspected of stealing bikes in the area and they believe he had even stolen their security bike parked right outside the security booth. Bob took down my info and said he would tour the back 40 where the tweakers, methheads and homeless hang out.
The photos not very good it's cropped from the background from one of my news photos.
Not expecting to see it again but have a hard time believing anyone thought it was worth stealing.
It is a Schwinn but from the 1980's when they were made in China so the welds are huge.
So just in case you see it along side the road somewhere give me a holler.

On Thursday September 12, 2013 residents near the corner of Florence Street and Grove Avenue awoke to the site of an old Winnebago motorhome parked on the street.
When I saw it it reminded me of the motorhome Dale drove in the first two seasons of "The Walking Dead". It was last seen burning outside a barn on Hershel Greene's farm after walkers broke in and devoured the driver Jimmy.
On the following Monday San Diego Sheriff deputies supervised as an employee of Cortes Towing prepared the RV to be towed.
The deputies told me the RV's tags expired in 2009 and that it had been abandoned on the street for 6 months. My face my have expressed disbelief on that last fact as the deputy then said "We are towing it because of the expired tags."
I then asked the deputy if he had seen "The Walking Dead" he said he had and I told him of the similarities between the two RV's.
"Yeah" he said "It looks like it but I don't think this one could survive a Zombie Apocalypse."

Spokesrodent Turdy McRat told me "Channel 10 needs to get their act together. No self respecting rat would set foot into Imperial Beach. Their city hall is full of rats but the two legged kind and we don't mix.
The home my brethren have invaded is in the Nestor neighborhood but that is in San Diego not Imperial Beach. I've been in contact with Gloria Allred as were thinking of bringing a suit against reporter Cristin Severance and 10 News for defamation of character. We demand an apology."

For the second Sunday in a row I have encountered teenage boys jumping the fence at Mar Vista Middle School located at 1267 Thermal Ave. San Diego in the Nestor neighborhood right outside the Imperial Beach city limits. The two boys were seated on the school roof drinking bottled water that they possibly bought from the vending machines located just feet from the fence they had climbed. I was on my way to the South Bay Drive-in Swap Meet around 8:30 am when I saw the boys on the roof and stopped as any concerned citizen should do when they see suspicious behavior. One of the boys gave me a thumbs up but neither seemed to be aware they were doing anything wrong. I brought up the subjects of trespassing, which they shrugged off, Neighborhood Watch which got another shrug and finally reporting suspicious behavior to the police which seemed to get their attention and them moving.

What was the mystery object in the sky over Imperial Beach?
For the second time in as many weeks an object floated over Imperial Beach going in the South-East direction from the beach towards San Ysidro. Looking like a huge black garbage bag, possibly 4ftX6ft. with some describing a ribbed appearance on one side.
The first time was Wednesday, Oct. 16 at 11:45 AM and again today Monday, Oct. 21 at 11:55 AM.
Any ideas?

I ride a bike almost every day in and around the Imperial Beach and Nestor neighborhoods. Several businesses along Imperial Beach/Coronado Blvd and Palm Avenue have a bad habit of placing advertising sandwich boards in the bike lanes. So far I have only taken photos of the offending signs but I have been tempted to knock them down or to even grab them and take them home.

Hello Imperial Beach.
It’s sad that either no one is reading the Holler section or those of us posting are just really boring. I saw this posting on Craigslist of a Job offer for an Office Manager in Imperial Beach. They say the applicant “must be able to type 50 WPM "using all fingers". This is mandatory.” I’m thinking whether you have all 10 fingers or missing a few that would count as discrimination.

Dear San Diego Reader,
Had some difficulty posting my Craigslist item and after some help from your web-site team I realized what was confusing me. Instead of posts on Holler going from newest to oldest they go from oldest to newest. I wasn't scrolling down because I figured I had read all the Hollers for Imperial Beach. I’m thinking if a new visitor arrives they may get turned off seeing a year or more older posts and move on.
So I vote lets put the recent posts at the top! Who’s with me!!

Dear NFL, Have Weird Al Yankovic headline the Super Bowl XLIX Halftime Show.
Imagine the halftime show for Super Bowl XLIX at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona and taking the stage Weird Al Yankovic, the pop-song parodist with the Billboard No. 1 album in the country "Mandatory Fun."
Surprisingly more than 80,000 people have signed an online petition trying to make that idea a reality.
Ed Ball of Washington State started a petition on change.org asking the National Football League to have Yankovic headline the Super Bowl halftime show.
Ball explains his reasons on the
“For decades Weird Al has entertained fans, young and old, with his popular clever parodies and unique sense of humor. Having him headline the Super Bowl XLIX Halftime Show would not only be overly accepted by the millions of views, but it would remain true to the standards and quality of the show business we have come to love and respect out of this prestigious event. The songs of artists that he is parodying could join him on stage to accompany, as well as other surprise appearances from well-known actors/actresses, adding more prestige and star power. The theatrics alone would be hilarious and a welcoming change, and draw a wider audience of fans that typically would not tune into the championship game or half-time show.”
http://www.change.org/petitions/tracy-perlman-nfl-vice-president-have-weird-al-yankovic-headline-the-super-bowl-xlix-halftime-show